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Frankenstein: Beyond the Time is a hidden object game. It takes place in Frankenstein's mansion and you have to find various ingrediants in order to rebuild his monster! Each part you complete requires more items to be found. If you can't find them as time expires, they return to their place and you can go again.

Pros:
Atmosphere - the mansion looks great and there are plenty of creaks and objects to keep you on your toes.
Concept - not a lot like this in VR!
Story - great use of Frankenstein in a way that hasn't been done. Can't wait to see where the story goes.

Cons:
Optimization - the game jutters on low settings and was unplayable for me on high settings
Repitition - It's basically the same thing over and over again but with a longer list of items to find.
Price - Currently too high for what the game offers

I'm currently reccomending the game because I think it's off to a good start. That said, there needs to be more variance in the gameplay and/or the price needs to be adjusted. We'll see where this early access game develops!

1st Impressions video with Commentary // Oculus Rift + Touch // GTX 1060 (6GB)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snn2yq8efJY

My Thoughts:
Frankenstein: Beyond the Time is a hidden object game in VR with some amazing graphics.
The game is still a bit janky in parts, loading screens are very long and you'll probably think the game has crashed, it hasn't just give it time.
Picking up objects, just doesn't feel quite right yet and I did have some tracking issues on my Oculus Rift, I have not managed to figure out if it was the game or just my system.

Giving this a positive rating for now as I feel the developers will sort out most of the main issues.

Recommended if on sale. Buy it for the graphics and ambiance, but not for the game or mechanics which are terrible.

The textures, models, mist, atmospherics, and overall ambiance of the game are beautiful and immersive.

The physics, locomotion, bugs, and non-intuitive mechanics are frustrating and sometime unplayable. I gave up on the minigames, and just explored the house by breaking down the board-covered doorways with my invisible (due to a bug) ax.

I hope they make some serious changes to bring the controls and mechanics in line with best VR practices, and work out the bugs. Until then, it isn't worth full price, IMO.

2 Minute Video Review → https://youtu.be/VqtK9_0x9ck

Frankenstein Beyond The Time is an item collecting game. Gameplay consists of several chapters in which you look all around for specific items and then assemble them inside the machine. The first thing you assemble will actually be a floating guide that will instruct you on how to play the rest of the game and offer you some random commentary as well.

From that point on you'll have a watch like device on your left hand that will point you toward the next item you need to find as well as show a countdown timer. Once the countdown timer is done you'll go through a time travel rewind and all the items that you've collected for that particular chapter will be returned to their original place. So for each chapter of gameplay you need to beat the clock in finding the items and assembling the objects.

It seems the game wants you to find items in a particular order. Because I found a bottle that I swear is the exact same bottle in the inventory list, but it was rejected by the machine.

The graphics are very good. The environments are highly detailed and it all feels very polished. There are the occasional physics bugs but nothing I couldn't live with. The initial loading time is pretty long. It took about two minutes for the game to show the initial menu and after starting a new game I had to wait an additional two minutes. But after that was all done I was good to go.

One other thing to note is that the longer you play the more spooky elements that will appear. Like losing power with the lights going out, and later in the game a ghost might haunt you

You'll get up to four hours of playtime in here so for $20 it's a decent value. If you're in the mood for a good looking item hunting quest, then check it out.

Not well optimized, hit detection wonky, timed 'hunt and fetch' quests that you'll have to restart if one of your items goes missing because of said hit detection throwing it somewhere. Wanted to like it but more frustrating then fun

Quite simply - it's a cool game. I love the atmosphere, the overall feeling, and how the game looks. Time rewind mechanic is interesting and it creates a slight challange. It suffers from some slight clipping and movement issues, but overall - I definitely can recommend it!

So, even as a HOG (hidden-object game), this title is quite different. You have a compass here that basically tells you where the items are. Even so, it can be difficult to locate the items just due to the nature of VR and the timer. However, once you find the item you can just memorize where they were and the whole section becomes trivial on any repeated tries.

This game does have free locomotion, but no real turning. You can reset view and you'll be facing the direction you reset by pressing down on the joystick. The environment is absolutely unique and breath-taking with lots of original assets. In case it's not obvious, game is set in an alternate universe Dr. Frankenstein, Time Lord. Your job is to find the hidden objects.

Unfortunately, the gameplay just doesn't feel smooth. It's like the entire budget went into the environment & 3D artists. Grabbing & storing items just isn't intuitive. It took usually a few tries to grab small items. I had no idea if you could give items to your robot fiendish creation, but I just decided it was better to walk back and forth with the item in my hand. Either way, it would have made more sense just to have auto-store or a backpack to put things in.

The animations were well-done. The ambient sounds and music were also top notch. The voice acting was above average and there is an interesting story in theory, but the gameplay is pretty dull. A beautiful paint job doesn't cover up the basic gameplay. In the end, at least in this HOG, the gameplay is more tedious than challenging.

I think it would have been better if they had like a tracker system with a louder sound as you got closer to the hidden object. That would make it more fun & immersive finding the hidden object, rather than having a simple compass that you just follow the direction then look all around. Another idea is just to have all the objects in one room that you have to find (without the compass), rather than having to traverse the whole mansion with that darn compass.

Sale Price Rating 5/10. Honestly, I would have given a negative review if I had paid more than the $7 I did in the Steam Winter Sale 2018.

Cant play it. Just crashes back to vr home as soon as I open it. i9 9900 2080ti 32gig

In this game you wander around the home/lab of Dr Frankenstein collecing parts ro rebuild his creature. You are navigated to them by way of a compass on your wrist and there is a time limit, Fail, and you have to start over.

This game has stunning graphics, but needs a lot of tweaking... Pick something up and you find yourself shaking your controller to try and put it down (and I wasn't playing in sticky fingers mode). You can accidentally teleport through walls, and some objects dropped break moments after hitting a surface. A required object (some wire) kept leaving my grip everytime I entered the lab from another room and returning to where I found it which ate into the time limit considerably. Bottles in the corner kept rattling which is annoying when you are trying not to disturb a spirit ready to rob you of time if she hears you in your search. Free locomotion and teleport took flipping between the two to get them to activate and jogging mode doesn't seem to work at all? I opened up a drawer (they stick too!) and was flung through a wall, while the contents remained suspended in mid air.

I think the gameplay is a little limited as all this happens to be is just a navigated game of fetch running against the clock. And when objects sticking to your grip only hamper your efforts it can be frustrating.

And it takes forever to load.... which could be forgiven, it's kind of worth the wait. The end sequence takes awhile and I thought the game had stalled halfway through it, buts it was just more loading time.

I'm going to recommend it only in the hopes that the developers fix the glitchiness of the experience sometime soon. If the mechanics matched the graphics it could be a interesting way to pass some time, short though it may be.

Not worth $20 or even the $10 I paid for it. Refund pending. Several hallmarks of poor game design, interacting with the world feels clunky & breaks 20-30% of the time, no real gameplay value. You're in a house. Pick up items and put them in a tub. When all items are in tub, make battery and pull lever to see admittedly creative characters. Every 10 minutes or so, house resets, along with your progress. Feels like cheap Unity shovelware. Get a free novelty game and get the same experience for an appropriate price.

To the dev's credit, the lore is fairly fleshed out and lots of detail was put into the house & creatures. If you want to play a story and don't mind some weird physics, you may enjoy it.

YMMV, but if the game seems to freeze on first load I think that's normal. You'll see it before it's done loading on your screen mirror and SteamVR may indicate it's not responding. Give it more time than seems appropriate and it should eventually load up in your headset.